This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …

This paper analyzes the use of informal credit as a coping strategy against risk by market women in the city of Tamale …, Ghana. Using qualitative research techniques, the analysis reveals that intra-household structure and allocation decisions … determine these market-based coping strategies. Market women invest a considerable amount of working hours in maintaining …

This paper analyzes the use of informal credit as a coping strategy against risk by market women in the city of Tamale …, Ghana. Using qualitative research techniques, the analysis reveals that intra-household structure and allocation decisions … determine these market-based coping strategies. Market women invest a considerable amount of working hours in maintaining …

Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path … productive assets to increase women's empowerment among sugar farmers in Uganda. We document that this intervention increases … women's access to resources and agency by a substantial amount. In contrast, a behavior change intervention (training …

solidarity ; informal insurance ; investment ; micro and small enterprises ; sharing ; Sub-Saharan Africa …

This paper examines the impact of the Hindu Succession Act on married women's time use in India. The Hindu Succession … Act was amended between 1976 and 2005 by giving equal inheritance rights to women for inheriting property. To estimate the …. Using the nationally representative Time Use Survey 2019, I find that women exposed to the reform are investing 46 minutes …